cthia wrote:cthia wrote:ISTR a stampede of students competing for Honor's classes, which seem to support the same type of mechanics of a traditional university of several instructors teaching the same course. It would have to be that way to feed the ravenous appetite of BuPers to graduate so many.
Is it a given how long the course is?
I'd also like to know what Honor actually taught.
The wiki states that Henke and Harrington were roommates for three years. I would imagine that its a four year course that the two of them completed in three? Or even a four year course that was shortened to three, because of the ravenous need of BuPers, which would cut such courses as history. Though Honor wasn't short of instruction there by any meter stick.
I'm almost certain Honor and Michelle were roommates while attending the 'undergrad' portion of the Acadamy, not when Honor returned between Hawkwing and Fearless to take the 'Crusher' course.
Incidentally the actual quote from SVW is "They'd been roommates at Saganami Island for over three T-years"; with 3 T-years being about 1.7 Manticoran years.
As to the length of the 'undergrad' program OBS says "two and a half years of Academy classes", and also "those forty-five endless months on Saganami Island were deliberately planned to leave even midshipmen without 'cats too few hours to do everything they had to do". That seems to track with about 2.5 Manticoran years, or 3.75 T-years; so they were probably roommates that entire time.
Though we know (from SoS, any IIRC some other places) that the 'undergrad' training gets compressed in wartime with snotties graduating early to feed the personnel demands of a war footing. But I don't remember how much that 45 months got compressed by.
However the ATC, aka the Crusher, is (we're told by AoV) a 6 T-month course. (A grueling one but "only" half a T-year)
Oh, and in addition to being commandant of the Advanced Tactical Course I seem to recall she taught a Tactics 101 Lecture over in Saganami Island Proper. (Yep, AoV confirms that)